VOTE-SPLITTING CHARGE
( ANSWER OF UNITED LEADER. B.r Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, May 22. Mr. G. W. Forbes, M.P., acting. Leader of the United Party, declared in an interview that the charge of votesplitting made against the party could have no force whatever, because th® remedy for such a position was entirely in the hands of the Government. If the Government was sincere in wishing to avoid vote-splitting at the election it was in its power to introduce a measure of electoral reform providing for a preferential system of voting. “When the Reform Government makes that charge against us,” said Mr. Forbes, “it does so with the object of narrowing down the choice of the electors to its own candidates, as against Labour candidates, and that is a position that will not be tolerated. If there is any complaint about the splitting of votes, the responsibility must be laid entirely at the door of the Government.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 2
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